All right. In this Wikispace tutorial, I’m going to teach you how to embed a Scribd Document on to your Wikispace page. Wikispace has made it pretty easier to do this so let me show you how to do it.
First of all if you go to Scribd, let’s just go ahead and search for “web 2.0 in schools” and then I’m going to select the academic genre and then I’m going to go ahead and click on Search. It seems to be a popular topic nowadays for educators.
Let’s scroll down. Let’s see if we can find anything. We might want to use this one, it’s pretty good. Web 2.0 Science tools and you can come on click on whichever view you’d like to kind of see what’s in the document before you decide that you want to embed it in to your Wikispace. So I’m going to just click on the book one and then if you change it to book it gives you this little arrows, left or right or so that you can page left or right. And then also it gives you the option to zoom like this.
So this is really cool. Scribd basically allows you to embed documents so that they’re viewable on line or in your website or in our case, you Wikispace. So the benefit of that is that your users don’t have to download the actual document. They can just view it right there. And let me show you. I used a word making that we’re doing with or Scribd document. We have an online Scribd document and we titled it “Information at a Glance” and this is basically for the educators at the school that I teach at and it’s just basically anything and everything that we as the teachers need to know. So it’s just information at a glance and so it’s concise, it’s 19 pages and you can just click on the arrows to view each of the different pages so it’s a great tool to use for your Wikispace.
So, let’s just go ahead and embed this one, the Web 2 Science Tools document. If you see this button right here it says, “Share and Imbed” and that’s what we want to click on. So you’ll click on that and then since we’re doing a Wikispace and it’s not mentioned right here, we’ll go ahead and click on More and actually Wikispace is not mentioned here either for what I can see. And so we will exit to that and we will decide to this. We’ll just click once in here and it selects all of the code and that’s the embedcode that we want to imbed in our Wikispace. So, I’m going to hit Command+C on the Mac and then if you’re on a PC, its Ctrl+C and that is copy or you can just click the Copy button and then I’m going to move back over to my Wikispace.
All right. Now that we are at my Wikispace, I’m going to go ahead and embed this Scribd document on this page. I went ahead and titled it “Scribd Document” and let’s go ahead and click on Edit This Page and I’m going o go ahead and delete all of these text right here and then I’m going to click on the little TV icon and says “Embed Widget” that’s what we want. And then I’m going to click on the Document Option and then Scribd. And since we’ve already copied it from the Scribd website, we can go ahead and paste it. To do that, we’re going to use the shortcut Command+V on the Mac and then if you’re on a PC, you’re going to do Ctrl+V and there we go. Let’s go ahead and click Save and then we’re going to click Save again.
And Walah! There it is. If you noticed, it embedded our Scribd document and it also made sure that it filled the available space that’s within our Wikispace page. So, that’s perfect. We didn’t even have to resize it or anything. Noticed the embedded document? It still has the arrows that you can click on to view the different pages. It still has the magnification option incase the text is too small ton read. It al so has the Click and Drag options so that you can read it slowly just like that. And it also has this More button, or you can email to a friend, you can copy embed codes to maybe place somewhere else. It gives you the document info and this is just the info that the author has put in or the person that actually uploaded it to Scribd. Whatever information they put in there, that’s what the document info contains. Then it’ll also allow you to save the document to your computer or somewhere else. It allows you to print and then it gives you a view mode. This again is where you can change it to either the list mode like we have it right now, or you can do Book mode or you can do Slide mode.
We’ve already got this. It’s already uploaded to Scribd so we don’t need that and there is some other options right here. So anyways that’s just kind of general over view of how to imbed a Scribd document to your Wikispace. I hope this has been helpful for you. I know it was helpful for me when I first learned how to do it and such a potential for my Wikispace. So, yeah, but thanks for watching Wikispace tutorials.
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